SPORTS
TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2016
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Eagles, Cox agree
to 6-year contract
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
— Standout defensive tackle
Fletcher Cox agreed Monday
to a six-year contract with
the Philadelphia Eagles that
could earn him nine fi gures.
The
fi rst-round
draft pick
in 2012
has been a
starter since
midway
in his rookie season. One
of the NFL’s most versatile
defensive linemen, he has
308 tackles and 22 sacks in
his four pro seasons.
Cox, 25, did not attend
the team’s organized
offseason activities, but
returned to the teams last
week.
He comes off his best
NFL season with 104 tackles
(80 solo) and 9 1-2 sacks. He
had three sacks against New
Orleans in Week 5, a career
high.
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Grogan drafted by Twins
Former Stanfi eld
standout selected
in 30th round of
MLB Draft
In this un-
dated photo,
Lewis-Clark
State’s Quin
Grogan, of
Stanfi eld,
pitches
during a
game this
season.
Grogan was
drafted in the
30th round of
the MLB draft
by the Minne-
sota Twins.
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
It has been quite a week for Quin
Grogan.
On June 3, Grogan and his
Lewis-Clark State Warriors base-
ball team held off Faulkner 12-11
to capture their 18th NAIA national
championship,
with
Grogan
pitching four innings in relief to
get the win. And then on Saturday,
Grogan had one of his childhood
dreams become reality.
He was drafted into Major
League Baseball.
Grogan, a senior pitcher for
the Warriors, was selected in the
30th round (903rd overall pick) by
the Minnesota Twins in the 2016
MLB First-Year Player Draft. He
turned in a dependable season for
the Warriors, starting 12 games on
the season and adding two relief
appearances as he fi nished 5-1 with
a 1.91 ERA with 83 strikeouts in
75.1 innings to help the Warriors to
a 52-8 overall record.
“It was thrilling and exciting,”
Grogan said of being drafted. “It
was defi nitely something you
always dream of as a kid and some-
thing I’ve been working towards for
a long, long time.”
Grogan was spending the day
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Photo by Zachary
Shore/Lewis-Clark
State Athletics
Seahawks try out
former NBA guard
Nate Robinson
RENTON, Wash. (AP)
— The Seattle Seahawks
have given former NBA
standout and one-time
college football player Nate
Robinson a tryout.
The
FACES Seahawks
confi rmed
that Robinson
went through
a tryout on
Monday, fi rst
reported by The
Washington
Robinson
Post. Robinson
had indicated in video
posted to YouTube earlier
this spring a desire to play
football again.
Robinson gave up
his chance at football
after his freshman year
at Washington, where he
was a standout defensive
back. Robinson appeared
in 13 games in 2002 as a
true freshman and had two
interceptions. He gave up his
football career the following
spring to focus on basketball
and became an NBA
fi rst-round pick in 2005.
Robinson has played for
eight teams in his career and
was a three-time winner of
the slam dunk competition.
“The whole
old story is the
underdog story,
and I cannot
hear that story
anymore. I want
to see them risk
things. Let’s go
for it. Because if
you’re not going
for it, sooner or
later they’re going
to break you
down.“
— Jurgen Klinsmann
US Men’s National
Soccer Team coach on
what he wants his team’s
mental approach to be for
the Copa America knock-
out round. The US won
Group A and will face
Ecuador on Thursday.
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scores 45 points, stealing
the ball from Karl Malone
and hitting a jumper with 5.2
seconds left to give Chicago
an 87-86 win and a 4-2 series
victory over Utah for a sixth
NBA title.
2005 — Michelle Wie
becomes the fi rst female
player to qualify for an adult
male U.S. Golf Association
championship. Wie earns one
of only two spots available in
the 85-player qualifi er for the
U.S. Amateur Public Links
on July 11-16.
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PENDLETON
Tournament honors program’s ‘special girl’
Players remember
Ashlee Hodgen for
infectious positivity
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
As sports so often forces athletes
to do, the Hodgen Distributing base-
ball team had to take the bad along
with the good and fi nished their
weekend tournament with more of
the former on Sunday.
After starting its summer season
with two straight shutout wins
at the Ashlee Hodgen Memorial
A memorial
banner for
Ashlee Hodgen
hangs in center
fi eld as Hodgen
Distributing’s
Joe St. Pierre
prepares to
pitch against
Meridian (ID) in
the semifi nals
of the Ashlee
Hodgen Memo-
rial Tournament
on Sunday at
Bob White Field
in Pendleton.
Meridian won
9-0.
Tournament, the team bearing her
name lost 9-0 in the semifi nals to
Meridian (Idaho), then 8-3 to Baker
City in the third-place game.
The tournament was a fundraiser
for the Ashlee Hodgen Memorial
Scholarship, created in her honor
after her sudden passing at age 24
last July.
It’s the best possible way to honor
the young woman who became a
member of the Pendleton baseball
family at birth and grew up around
Bob White Field, where she later
assisted her father Mike Hodgen
with grounds-keeping and coaching
duties at the historic ballpark.
“She was here with her dad all
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Staff photo by Matt
Entrup
NBA Finals
High School Rodeo
James, Irving keep Cavs alive
Pederson, Sorey
and Smith win
state titles
Cleveland duo
combines for 82
points in win
Intermountain rodeo team
sends six to nationals
By JON KRAWCZYNSKI
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Like
everyone else, Draymond
Green could only watch as
LeBron James and Kyrie
Irving sent the NBA Finals
back to Cleveland.
James had 41 points, 16
rebounds and seven assists
and Kyrie Irving also scored
41 points to lead the Cleveland
Cavaliers to a 112-97 victory
over the Warriors on Monday
night, ensuring the NBA Finals
will go back to Cleveland.
Klay Thompson scored 37
points and Stephen Curry had
25 for the Warriors, who lead
the best-of-seven series 3-2.
But the Warriors sorely missed
Green, who was suspended
after striking James in the
groin in Game 4.
With the defensive dynamo
next door in Oakland Coli-
seum, the Cavaliers shot 53
percent, hit 10 of 24 3-pointers
and handed the Warriors their
fourth home loss this season.
“It’s too simple to say that” the
Warriors lost because of Green’s
absence, Golden State coach
East Oregonian
AP Photo/Marcio J. Sanchez
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) shoots
against the Golden State Warriors during the fi rst half of
Game 5 of basketball’s NBA Finals in Oakland, Calif., Mon-
day, June 13, 2016.
Steve Kerr said.
G r e e n
Game 5
“We weren’t
watched the
game sitting
very
good
in a suite
d e f e n s i v e l y.
Cleveland Golden State with general
We knew we
manager Bob
were without
Myers while
Draymond, so
his teammates
there’s no point
in harping on that. We had to tried to pick up their exiled
comrade. But it was clear
play better and we didn’t.”
Green was suspended after from the start that they missed
the NBA retroactively charged him badly, especially on the
him with a fl agrant-1 foul defensive end.
Even though he stands only
for hitting James in the groin
during Game 4. The foul trig- 6-foot-8, Green is a ferocious
gered an automatic suspension interior presence for the
and left the Warriors and their Warriors and allows the rest
fans fuming at the decision.
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112
97
HERMISTON — Preston Pederson,
Trent Sorey and Calgary Smith added
state titles to their seasons on Sunday after
the fi nal round at the Oregon High School
Rodeo Association Finals Rodeo at Crook
County Fairgrounds in Prineville.
The cowboys were
three of six Inter-
mountain Rodeo team
members to qualify
for the National High
School Finals Rodeo
(NHSFR) in 12 events.
Pederson, a recent
Hermiston High grad-
uate, was the boys’
Reserve
All-Around
Pederson
Champion (and the top
all-around cowboy in
Oregon when the title went to Brush Prairie,
Washington’s Zachary Raley), and was also
named Tesky’s Top Hand after he fi nished
the season in the top 10 of four events.
Pederson won titles in tie-down roping
and boys’ cutting. He was fi fth in steer wres-
tling and ninth in team roping.
Sorey and Smith, the freshman-junior
team ropers from Pendleton, missed the
See INTERMOUNTAIN/2B